The Four Faces of Nuclear Terror: And the Need for a Prioritized Response

A Security Vulnerabilities Assessment Tool for Interim Storage Facilities of Low-Level Radioactive Wastes

“…Such facilities, which may be near the site of waste generation or in distal locations, often were not originally designed for the purpose of LLRW storage, particularly with regard to security. Facility security has become particularly important in light of the domestic terrorist acts of 2001, wherein sources of radioactivity became recognized commodities to those wishing to create disruption through the purposeful dissemination of radioactive materials (Stone 2002;Palmore 2003;Potter et al 2004). Employing a risk-based approach, regulatory officials have necessarily focused security control attention on a designated set of specific high activity radionuclides, which are considered to represent the greatest risk for use in a radiological dispersal device (RDD).…”